The Fields of Britannia
Continuity and Change in the Late Roman and Early Medieval Landscape
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 September 2015
- ISBN 9780199645824
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 241x163x33 mm
- Weight 880 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 111 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside.
MoreLong description:
It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.
[an] important new book ... I have no hesitation from an academice viewpoint in recommending it to students of landscape archaeology, as I suspect it will have quite a significant effect on the way we read the post-Roman landscape in the future.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Appendices
List of Abbreviations
Fields of Britannia: A Roman Legacy in the British Countryside
A Regional Approach to Studying Landscape
A Landscape Approach to the Roman-medieval Transition
The South East
East Anglia
The Central Zone
The South West
The Western Lowlands
The North East Lowlands
The Northern Uplands
Upland and Lowland Wales
Discussion and Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
